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Dec
Spread pesto over crust. Knead in 14 cup cheese basil and oregano.
Place on a greased 14-in.
How to make pesto sauce for pizza. On pizza in place of or in addition to the red sauce Added to a cream sauce or Alfredo sauce Mixed with mayonnaise as a sandwich spread or burger topping Stirred into mashed potatoes Stirred into risotto Dolloped on soup Spread on crostini and topped with chopped tomatoes smoked salmon. Knead in 14 cup cheese basil and oregano. Roll into a 12-in.
Place on a greased 14-in. Prick with a fork. Bake for 10 minutes.
Slather a layer of pesto sauce on pizza dough. Top with grated mozzarella cheese and sliced black olives. Place pizza in preheated oven until cheese melts.
Making pesto is really just a matter of throwing a few ingredients into a blender and in a few minutes you have homemade pesto sauce ready to go. Spread pesto over crust. Layer with spaghetti sauce Parmesan cheese sausage mixture mushrooms olives and Monterey Jack cheese.
Bake at 400 for 30-35 minutes or until crust is. Slowly whisk in the heavy cream pesto and Parmesan. Add salt and pepper if needed and taste for flavor.
You can add a bit more pesto or cream depending on how strong you want. Just made this sauce tonight for sourdough French bread pizza and it was great. I tweaked it a little and used 3tsp Italian seasoning 1 tsp oregano 1 tsp basil 3 fresh garlic cloves finely minced on a microplaner 4 tbsp avocado oil because I was out of olive oil salt white vinegar and a couple pinches of crushed red chili flakes.